COMMUNITY MEDICINE

Overview

Community Medicine deals with health care issues affecting communities as a whole, with an emphasis on preventive measures at various levels. It seeks to alleviate health problems by finding comprehensive solutions that address not just medical, but social issues.

The department strives to sensitize students to the various factors influencing health, healthcare and healthcare seeking behavior. Students are provided hands-on experience in survey techniques and research. They are also involved in health care at the community level, implementation of national health programmes and health education activities.

Goals

To create doctors who can be empathetic and caring while effectively functioning as healthcare providers, decision makers, effective communicators, community leaders and health care managers in rural and urban settings.

Faculty:

The Department of Community Medicine at DM WIMS is headed by Dr. Rujutha Vikas Kakade, having more than 22 years of teaching experience.

In addition, the Department has One Professor, One Associate Professor, Three Assistant Professors, One Biostatistician and Five Tutors.

Facilities:

Museum with numerous models, charts, and other specimens

Research Laboratory with equipment for intramural and extramural research activities

Departmental Library with more than 100 books

2 Demonstration Rooms with AV aids

Services:

Peripheral Health Centers

Urban Health Training Centre (UHTC), at Kalpetta

Rural Health Training Centre (RHTC), at Kambalakkad

Apart from UHTC and RHTC, there are two more State run functional Rural Health Centers (Community Health Centres): Ambalavayal-CHC and Meenangadi-CHC attached to the Department of Community Medicine. These centers help to orient medical students effectively on Primary health care, three tier health care system and National Public Health Programmes.